mistletoe

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to send out an email telling y�all how I did this weekend.� I also wanted to take a minute to thank all of y�all for your prayers and support that you have shown me for my first race.�� I placed third in my division and hopefully next time I will do better. �I know where I have my wrinkles to iron out and next time I will wake up on time.� I woke up late and had breakfast late, so my breakfast was sitting on my stomach through the entire race slowing me down.� I finished with an overall time of an hour and 23 minutes:
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Swim Time����������� -����������� 0:15:57.637
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Transition 1�� �-����������� 0:02:17.179 (spandex is hard to get up a set of wet legs, one lesson learned)
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Bike���� ����������� -����������� 0:37:13.323
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Transition 2����-����������� 0:00:59.345
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Run����� ����������� -����������� 0:27:05.536
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Overall ����������� -����������� 1:23:34.020
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I had some good times compared to the guys in my division, the guy before me finished in an hour and 21 mins, so I was right on his heals too.� But the first mile of the run was hard, for most tri�s it is hard anyway, but with my stomach feeling the way it was I hatein it.� Then this little 55 year old man passed me with the simple phrase �Thank Jesus� written on the back of his jersey.� I knew that was God telling me something and it carried me the last two miles of the race right behind that guy with a final push at end.� I shook the guys hand and gave him a pat on the back and thanked him for the inspiration.� Those two simple words meant so much to me and then this morning at church in the bulletin for a youth function was the phrase we all know:
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�I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me�
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But I got an awesome T-shirt and a cool medal for my third place win.� Not a bad experience at all for my first race, I leaned a lot to apply in my next one.� So thanks again to all you that showed me support in the last five months.� It has been a long hard road and what an accomplishment it is.� I also want to give a special thank you to my mother whose presence this weekend was an awesome help to me mentally and physically.� She carried around my pre/post race bag and was there to cheer me on and got some awesome pics that I am going to load up to a web page later on.� So thanks Mom for everything!� Hopefully my next race will be this weekend in Jacksonville, if not then the next one is June 26 just north of Macon about 45 mins south of Atlanta.� I will be camping out that weekend so if anyone wants to come and cheer me on, all are welcome!� Thanks again everyone for helping through this!
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With much thanks and appreciation,
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Gene Lary Jr.